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Wayne Thiebaud Quotes: I'm not just interested in the pictorial aspects of the landscape - see a pretty place and try to paint it - but in some way to manage it, manipulate it, or see what I can turn it into.
         

I'm not just interested in the pictorial aspects of the landscape - see a pretty place and try to paint it - but in some way to manage it, manipulate it, or see what I can turn it into.


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I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.

I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove.



Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that.

Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that.



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Discipline is not a restriction but an aid to freedom.



Art is not delivered like the morning paper; it has to be stolen from Mount Olympus.

Art is not delivered like the morning paper; it has to be stolen from Mount Olympus.



Art means something very rare, an extraordinary achievement.

Art means something very rare, an extraordinary achievement.



Commonplace objects are constantly changing… The pies, for example, we now see, are not going to be around forever. We are merely used to the idea that things do not change.

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